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has become a crustacean as regards some of his 

 faculties. These have become "occult." When 

 they are once more required they will again 

 come forth. They are beginning to come forth 

 now. 



When activities have to be spread over geological 

 periods instead of lifetimes, man will, in order to 

 cope with them, either have to prolong his life, or 

 find a new way of permanently recording his experi- 

 ences. Both ends may possibly be accomplished by 

 a thinning of the veil which divides embodied man 

 from the accumulated intelligence of his ancestors, 

 who poured forth by the million every year into that 

 unknown realm of existence with which the human 

 race, for good reasons of its own, has severed almost 

 all conscious connection. 



The result will be, in any case, that the solar 

 system will become conscious. It will control its 

 own destiny, and choose among the energies in the 

 universe those best adapted to preserve its con- 

 tinuity of evolution. 



Can anything more be accomplished in the time 

 at our disposal, in a thousand million years ? It 

 would not be too much to assume that the scale of 

 operations will extend as the basis expands. When 

 the planets move "like one man," when the solar 

 system is instinct with life, it will develop new 

 powers. Born into the solar cluster, it will endea- 

 vour to adapt itself to its surroundings, and then 



